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Parenting 101: The Benefits of Parenting Classes
Always wished for a manual to tell you how to parent? You’re not alone. So what’s a knowledge-hungry parent to do? Where do you find some solid parent-ed classes? Begin at the beginning with birth and early parent preparation. These classes are full of useful information about what to expect during
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Helping Your Child Adjust to a New Sibling
You’re adding to your family. Congratulations! You’ve survived and even thrived as a parent so far, but what happens when you go from expert parent of one to fledgling parent of two? How will your children get along? There’s no way to know. How your toddler treats your baby depends on the child. D
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Fact or Fiction: Demystifying Five Kids' Health Concerns
Parents know the world can be a dangerous place. So we do our best to keep our kids safe: We teach them to stop, look and listen before they cross the street. We childproof the cabinets and the windows, and buy childproof bottles of Tylenol. We strap them — securely and according to code — into thei
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Circumcision 101: To Cut or Not to Cut
Expecting a baby boy? Then one of the important decisions you’ll need to make is whether or not you’ll have him circumcised after he’s born. Circumcision is the removal of the foreskin, a fold of skin that covers the rounded tip of the penis. The infant is generally given a local anesthetic (a topi
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Parenting partnership: New dads
When Bernie Dorsey created a class to teach dads-to-be how to care for their newborns at Burien’s Highline Hospital in 1999, he had no idea how successful it would be. The real estate broker turned stay-at-home parent just wanted to share what he’d learned and teach future fathers what to expect aft
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Look Who's Cooing: Help Foster Your Baby's Language Skills
You swear you won’t do it — at least not in public. Then, when you have a little one, you suddenly find yourself speaking “baby talk” or “parentese,” using higher pitch, slower tempo and wider fluctuations in your intonation. You’re not alone. This type of “infant-directed communication” is used by
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The Breastfeeding Laws of Supply and Demand
Breastfeeding is a supply-and-demand system. The more demand on the system through breastfeeding the baby, the more milk the body makes. Occasionally, nature’s system is imperfect. Sometimes the body takes a day or two to catch up to a baby’s increased breastfeeding demand during a growth spurt. A
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Breastfeeding: Taking your breasts back to work
Breastfeeding is nature’s fast food. It’s the ultimate convenience: Baby is hungry, milk is ready. Any place. Any time. But that convenience changes when moms start thinking about separating from their baby and going back to work while still breastfeeding. But just because you’re headed back to wo
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